"I have a plan." "What kind of plan?" "A daring and bold one," he said. "Is that wise?" "It has to be that kind of plan. It's that kind of cosmos." - Matt Hughes

Assigning blame is a fixation of an ineffective mind.

“There was no indication of anything sinister?”
“No, though a truly sinister intrusion would be phrased in such a way as to appear not sinister.”
“That is not reassuring,” I said.

“We should be frank with each other,” Lavelan said.
It had been my experience that most conversations that were launched on such a declaration represented an attempt by the initiator to gain far more information than he intended to give.